I've been enjoying all the updates and terrific alien art pieces. My clay design didn't work out. When I finished it Dan and Tiki Hula announced that I'd made a snail needing to be named Slow Poke. So I'm going to start over and this year I'll do a painting.
Once I start I'll post my updates.

This has turned into a really fun swap. I like seeing all the outer space ideas. MadDogMike and Tiki Ano your ceramics look great.

I'll have to work hard to come up with a painting to meet the standards shown on this thread.

Wonder what color that gray glaze on the Kane will turn into _________________May we all get to have a chance to ride the fast one
Walk away wiser when we crashed one
Keep hoping that the best one is the last one

I chose an antique gold glaze for Alien Kane. Hard to see in the photo but it is a metallic glaze, looks like gold plated. This is Western's Aztec Gold and not a gold overglaze (which contains actual gold), not quite as shiny but gold overglaze is $840/ounce and Aztec gold is less than a buck an ounce Aztec gold fires best at Cone 05 which is a bit of an unusual temp for glaze firing, most lowfire glazes fire at Cone 06

The green that you see is clear glaze covering the chartruese underglaze. I fired the gold first so it will be easy to remove the clear that spilled over trying to glaze all the nooks and crannies behind the Kane